The Motorcycle Trip
Hey there, I’m Damien. In October 2006 I set out on a Kawasaki KLR 650 with the intention of riding it around the world…
Famo is a blog about my ride through Southeast and Central Asia and on to Spain. I finished the trip at the end of 2007 with a 500km walk across Spain from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compestella. The journey was pretty damn awesome and I’d like to share my photos and stuff with the world, also hopefully promoting some of the supposedly more “dangerous” places on earth. Everywhere is awesome!
By day I live in Sydney and work as a web developer and photographer for triple j, a national youth radio station.
Famo the Blog is an ongoing project. Life has been busy since returning to Australia, but I’m trying as hard as possible to drip-feed info into this collection of stories and guides. Check out some of the pages and posts on the right. Oh yeah, if you see missing images, I’m on it.
I’m throwing ideas around for more trips in the future, the following are in the back of my mind:
- Broome to Brisbane entirely off-road
- Trans-amazon
- A shoestring, down-to-earth guided tour of Iran (for friends and family to attend too)
- Northern areas of Pakistan and the border areas of Afghanistan
- Yosemite National Park down to Texas for SXSW.
If anyone is interested in doing some motorcycling, traveling, or just adventuring in general around the suburbs of Sydney, please leave me a comment.
December 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Damien,
great trip!
I’m planning to do some of the same route, India where i am working, to Germany where I live. Would be great to hear some more about your time in Pakistan and Iran in particular…
Cheers
January 13th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Hi Damien, the whole trip looks so amazing. Im thinking of doing something similar but dont know where to start. I guess i should start with gettin a bike first. I’d love to hear more about your experience and the things you needed or you found out that you needed along the way
. cheers
May 18th, 2010 at 1:36 am
Hi Damien, I live in Accra, Ghana in West Africa and I am an avid biker. The Aussie couple you met on one of your trips, Billy and Trish, have ridden all the way from Australia to Ghana and plan moving on along the west coast of Africa and entering Europe through Spain. What you guys are doing is awesome and a great inspiration to bikers everywhere. Hope to find the guys to begin riding further and further away from my comfort zones. Continue to Ride Safe.
May 20th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Hi Damien
I was just googling Aussie/Cambodian Blogs and found yours so hopefully you can help with some advice!
I have just got back from Cambodia but am pretty keen to get back there and travel through to India.
Obviously you would have a different experience but maybe you coul help … how do you think a girl doing this trip solo would be? No motorbikes involved … but in terms of general safety etc
Cheers
Lucy (Sydney)